I don’t do gaming tutorials that much but this one is so popular among the geek subculture that I felt I had to make an exception and hopefully you can figure out what this game is by now What’s this gigabyte a video about minecraft they must be paying you shy wish no minecraft is just my ultra geeky indulgence zombie and I thought I’d just show you guys how to set up your own minecraft server so you can play with your friends and so that I’m not alone in this over Indulgent addiction if you’re not sure how to play Minecraft or even what it is I’m setting up a basic beginners tutorial on my other channel this video assumes that you’ve already purchased minecraft or you were able to get it there in their free weekend if not You’re gonna have to purchase it or just wait and see if they have another free weekend first you want to head over to minecraft.net click on download and download the multiplayer server software for your operating system in the pour you downloaded it to create a new text File and enter in these values to tell it if you want monsters animals the max number of players friendly-fire and the server port save this file as server dot properties making sure it has no other extensions after all now just launch minecraft server dot exe and you should See results like this if you’re running mac or linux open up the command prompt navigate to where you downloaded the minecraft server jar file and type in this to launch it to connect to the server you’ll need to have the game already downloaded to your computer if You don’t have it go back to minecraft downloads page and download it for your specific system when you run it enter in your credentials and then select the multiplayer option now just enter in your servers IP address colon and then the port number that you specified in The server properties file now just have your friends do the same on their computers after that you should be able to click connect and start minecrafting the crap out of your chat fun but try not to let it take over your life like it has mine all right be sure to check out Tinkernut.com on tumblr Facebook and Twitter that’s it for this tutorial for more go to tinkernut.com Video Information
This video, titled ‘How to Create a Minecraft Game Server’, was uploaded by Tinkernut on 2011-04-20 00:46:29. It has garnered 192888 views and 1059 likes. The duration of the video is 00:02:32 or 152 seconds.
Minecraft is a super popular games among the geek community. So in this episode, I’ll show you how to set up your own Minecraft game server.
You can download the server software here: http://www.minecraft.net/download.jsp
If you have a mac, use the command line to launch the server software: java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui
Here’s the contents of the server.properties file: level-name=world hellworld=false spawn-monsters=true online-mode=true spawn-animals=true max-players=10 server-ip= pvp=true level-seed= server-port=25565 white-list=false